ProQuest Research LibraryProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

CINAHL PlusPrimary index to the international literature of nursing and health.

ProQuest Research LibraryProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

CINAHL PlusPrimary index to the international literature of nursing and health.

ScienceDirectScience Direct is a full text database offering journals and books from the leading scholarly publisher Elsevier. It has particular strengths in medicine and mathmatics, but its nine million articles cover a wide range of scientific topics. The collection stretches back to 1823 and includes prominent publications including The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron.
ScienceDirect hosts over 2,500 journals and more than 33,000 books?over 13 million peer-reviewed publications (including Open Access journals) in science, technical information, and health. Note Nursing journals in Column 3 Health Sciences.

Web of ScienceProvides current and retrospective indexing from science, social science, arts and humanities research journals published worldwide. Cited reference searching allows navigation forward and backward through the literature to trace a path of research.
For instruction for use, see Database Tutorials box, directly to the right.

Bio Medical CentralBMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal about epidemiology of disease and all aspects of public health. Special focus is on the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community.

DOAJ Directory of Open Access JournalsThis service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in a multitude of languages. There are now 4898 journals in the directory. Currently 2001 journals are searchable at article level.

Hinari Research in HealthHINARI Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and other info. resources.

World Health Organization (WHO)WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations? system. Site offers publications and data from around the world.

Social Science, Development, and Economics

ProQuest Research LibraryProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

PAIS InternationalPAIS indexes a wide range of literature on politics worldwide, public affairs, current events, international relations, public administration, marine policy, law and related topics.

Worldwide Political Science AbstractsWorldwide Political Science Abstracts indexes journal articles in political science and related areas(international relations, law, public administration, and public policy).

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. The Abstract Database contains information on over 66,400 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers.

Sociological AbstractsSociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts research literature published worldwide in journals and other serial publications.
Social Planning/Policy Development (SOPODA) is included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, housing, the environment and other social issues.

Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)Wilson Social Sciences Full Text indexes a wide range of social sciences journals.Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994; full-text coverage begins in January 1995.

Latin American Network Information CenterLANIC facilitates access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet.

Environment

Agricultural & Environmental ScienceA multidisciplinary database that indexes and abstracts the world's research literature in the fields of agricultural and environmental sciences, providing comprehensive coverage from 1967 to the present.
Includes the renowned AGRICOLA, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.

Gender and Women's Issues

Family & Society Studies WorldwideFamily & Society Studies Worldwide (formerly Family Studies Database) indexes and abstracts English language research in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development.
The core database was produced by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). It contains all the records of the discontinued print version, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature, plus abstracts which were never available in print. Additional resources are drawn from Australian Family & Society Abstracts produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

Gender WatchGenderWatch indexes and provides the full-text of articles in 175 publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch contains archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970's with additional archival material continually added, making this the repository of historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last fifteen to twenty years.

Social Issues

Latin American Social Medicine Database: A Resource For EpidemiologyThis public health informatics case study describes the key features of a unique information resource intended to improve access to LASM literature and to augment understanding about the social determinants of health. This case study includes both quantitative and qualitative evaluation data. The LASM database uses Spanish, Portuguese, and English language trilingual, structured abstracts to summarize classic and contemporary works.

Biblioteca Virtual de Salud: Desarrollo Sostenible y Salud AmbientalThis portal, part of the World Health Organization's Biblioteca Virtual de Salud, brings together peer-reviwed articles, legislature, websites, and institutional information about the topic of "reducing health risks and promoting healthy environments where people live, study, work and play as an integral elemend of human security and sustainable development."

Sociological AbstractsSociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts research literature published worldwide in journals and other serial publications.
Social Planning/Policy Development (SOPODA) is included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, housing, the environment and other social issues.

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StatistaIntegrates over 85,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 10,000 sources onto a single professional platform. The database provides business customers, researchers, and the academic community with direct access to relevant quantitative facts on agriculture, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest.

Pan American Health Organization - Country StatisticsProvides a selection of health data and statistics, analytic summaries of the health situation and trend and others information products at country level. Key messages, highlights and information products produced by country health teams will be also included.

Public Health PartnersLinks with annotations to health statistics and data sets as well as resources to support data collection.

UNDataProvides access to UN statistical databases through a single entry point.

Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationWorks with organizations worldwide to improve health in developing countries. Focus is on discovering new insights to fight diseases and health problems, developing effective, affordable vaccines and medicines, and delivering proven health solutions to those needing it most.

Carter CenterThe Center, partnering with Emory University, works to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering. Founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.

The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and MalariaGlobal public/private partnership dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Since founding in 2002 is main source of finance for programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

United Nations Development ProgrammeGlobal development network helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all activities, encourages protection of human rights and empowerment of women.

BIREMESpecialized center at Pan American Health Organization, that provides full-text collections of open access networks such as SciELO and ScienTI VHL and databases such as LILACS, MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library.